Birds to See in Papua New Guinea in January
6 species listed for January · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
6 bird species on our list for Papua New Guinea are recorded regularly in January. Of these, the most often recorded are Willie Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Whimbrel and Metallic Starling. New this month: Metallic Starling, Whimbrel and Common Tern.
New in January3
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(2)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(2)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(1)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made